Ugh, those damn things were ugly. They may have been built like tanks, but taking one apart was like trying to solve a Rubik's cube. (an angled case fan?!) One has to be extra careful when pulling out the graphics card because it was easy to catch its cap on the frame and rip it right off!
The Oxygen and O2 were far more elegant designs. I wished that regular PCs had that kind of setup (the CPU and boards were covered with massive heatsinks but no dedicated fans, but the chassis had two huge master fans keeping the whole thing cool). And all SGI machines were very picky about their hardware. Sometimes solving a hanging boot meant changing the DIMMS around.
So what gives noscript the right to unblock their ads when, say,/. can't unblock ads as it doesn't have an invasive plugin but is also free to use and a good source of news and information?
What you said.
I'm referring to the program or programs which control how you view the content, and not the content itself. There are ways to support Slashdot, for example, and you can see that I'm a subscriber.
When VALinux release a browser or a plugin that I use then I won't mind it displaying only its own ads. Hell, I wouldn't mind being forced to see all of OSTG's ads if the browser/plugin is good enough.
Allowing one's own ads dosen't bother me but it is a slippery slope which may devolve into allowing ads from selected outsiders and going sharply downhill from there - and if I have to look at ads in that fashion then I will look for better plugins. If none exist then I will use Chrome instead of FireFox until myself or somebody else code a plugin which gives me control over what I see.
Your position is interesting... you defend NoScript after attacking AdBlock for a lesser crime (merely asking you if you would consider viewing ads after visiting a site many times). What exactly is your angle? I think we may have the first case of Firefox extension fanboism on our hands here, folks.
Hmm, I didn't attack AdBlock. I did mean to say that it was redundant and pointless for AdBlock to prompt users as long as the same users also run NoScript. I did also say that I prefer NoScript over AdBlock, but I wouldn't call that an "attack".
As for NoScript's meddling with AdBlock, my personal belief is that is okay as long as the meddling involves only the showing of NoScript's as since I am using NoScript for free. I wouldn't mind if AdBlock meddled with NoScript to show AdBlock's, and only AdBlock's, own ads.
I am not a FF plugin fanboy. If NoScript and AdBlock accepted deals from advertisers and things gradually become worse (as they almost always do over time) then I'd ditch FF entirely and go the Chrome route.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did the article imply that the AdBlock guys are asking advertisers to change their code just so AdBlock can allow or disallow ads like NoScript already does? It would be kinda pointless since many AdBlock users also have NoScript installed!
Despite the FUD surrounding NoScript, I'll take it over AdBlock any day (well, at least until they refuse to block ads other than those on their own page).
NoScript's AdBlock-blocking trick was kinda dirty, but I don't see them as being hypocritical for allowing their own ads given the tremendous service(which increases safety while speeding up browsing) they provide for free.
Last week in a Spring Valley business park, a tower nearly 100 feet tall sprang up seemingly overnight...I approached three men, dressed as though they might be engineers, who were standing in the parking lot outside NSM Surveillance on Via Orange Way. When I asked them what the tower was for, one of them responded with the joke, "We can't tell you. We'd have to kill you."...By Wednesday afternoon the tower had disappeared.
Though that particular product was probably just a communications tower, the article describes how easy it is to set up an Orwellian society, especially with a systems integrator such as NSM Surveillance.
They used Cal State Northridge's Oviatt Library in some academy scenes (though obviously the water and the golden gate bridge aren't there in real life ^_^).
I mention this because I had my dick sucked in that library. The isolated study booths on the third floor are a good place for that, provided you tape a newspaper over the window. You can thank me later:)
Pffft. Ever try to browse Slashdot and look at porn with no mouse/touchpad while mousekeys wont work on your weird laptop?!
Tab about a hundred times to get to the link you want, then tab another hundred in the next window or until you get the right thumbnail etc. It's a tedious mess of tabs, enters, ALT+F4s, ALT+tabs, Windows and arrow keys, and backspaces. I'll have a broken keyboard over no mouse anyday.
Non-mouse navigability is a great metric for the usability of a website.
You're thinking of PICs and ASICs, bro. If they do keep SPARC alive it would be for 2 reasons - existing userbase and the comfort of the merger(and the testemonials of the current SPARC users) to prospective SPARC buyers. The latter wouldn't fly until the economy sees an upturn.
Agreed, I'm not right-wing or into big money but the difference between the 'journal and, say, Newsweek or FoxNews is like the difference between GQ/Esquire and Maxim.
For example, in the little multicultural, multilingual, top-performing country of Singapore, some 46% of the eighth graders scored in the top 10% of the world.
Here's why. Though I agree that American parents have gone soft on discipline.
No, it's spelled correctly. Priacy (as in where people pri into your personal life)is the opposite of privacy.
All kidding aside, networking sites aren't all bad. LinkedIn, for example, would be a good place to check a prospective employee's online presence without having to witness the passing out by the toilet after the bong hits.
Naw. They just don't want to pay out the benefits to more spouses than they have to. Many people think that Rupert Murdoch and his Fox empire have religious hangups, but don't forget that Fox gave us Married...With Children and Family Guy.
That would be getting into the realm of video effects which are much less trivial than Photoshop. The idea is still troubling, because the fewer the people who could do it, the much more believable it would be. That level of skill is asking to be abused!
but what role do our current beta tests play in the potential outcomes of unreleased titles?
Companies just release their products anyway. Nowdays beta-testers are referred to as "early adopters". Sadly, that extends to the hardware world as well, as this and this (the forum is riddled with those kinds of posts) demonstrate. At least Google are honest about their products being in permanent beta, but their stuff works unlike the others;)
Disclaimer: I'm familiar with both items because my father purchased one of those laptops only to have it die within 1-2 months. I bought a Peavey Vypyr amp which was riddled with the bugs that you see in the forums, problems which firmware updates did not fix. I took it in to the repair shop three weeks ago and I just found out that the board my amp needs is backordered until mid-May!/rant, thanks for reading.
It's modded troll because the moderator in question is likely severely mentally retarded, probably with some sort of weird spasms or seizures, and is sat down in front of the computer to gyrate endlessly whilst simultaneously crapping his pants.
Maybe he forgot to put the do-rag on his greased-up Yoda doll before he inserted it into his ass.
p.s. Fuck the moderators,
Fuck Apple,
Fuck Microsoft,
Fuck the Swedish court system,
Fuck corporate America.
No, he's right. Facebook and Twitter and the like are for attention-starved teens.
As for MENSA, having a high IQ does not account for conscientiousness or lack thereof. For example, I bet at least one MENSA member is religious. That alone smashes the credibility of the organization. And do they, in their infinite wisdom, realize that "mensa" is Spanish slang for "stupid female"?
Nintendo want a family-friendly toy. Hell, they won't even allow beer pong on their sissy system without substantial changes.
Wiis are all fine and dandy for infantiles and 3 year old kids, but men with hair on their nuts deserve better. More realism. Like curse words and heads asploding.
Bonus: if you can name the console and game the above linked pictures were taken from, then you win smug self-satisfaction.
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Ugh, those damn things were ugly. They may have been built like tanks, but taking one apart was like trying to solve a Rubik's cube. (an angled case fan?!) One has to be extra careful when pulling out the graphics card because it was easy to catch its cap on the frame and rip it right off!
The Oxygen and O2 were far more elegant designs. I wished that regular PCs had that kind of setup (the CPU and boards were covered with massive heatsinks but no dedicated fans, but the chassis had two huge master fans keeping the whole thing cool). And all SGI machines were very picky about their hardware. Sometimes solving a hanging boot meant changing the DIMMS around.
So what gives noscript the right to unblock their ads when, say, /. can't unblock ads as it doesn't have an invasive plugin but is also free to use and a good source of news and information?
What you said.
I'm referring to the program or programs which control how you view the content, and not the content itself. There are ways to support Slashdot, for example, and you can see that I'm a subscriber.
When VALinux release a browser or a plugin that I use then I won't mind it displaying only its own ads. Hell, I wouldn't mind being forced to see all of OSTG's ads if the browser/plugin is good enough.
Allowing one's own ads dosen't bother me but it is a slippery slope which may devolve into allowing ads from selected outsiders and going sharply downhill from there - and if I have to look at ads in that fashion then I will look for better plugins. If none exist then I will use Chrome instead of FireFox until myself or somebody else code a plugin which gives me control over what I see.
Your position is interesting ... you defend NoScript after attacking AdBlock for a lesser crime (merely asking you if you would consider viewing ads after visiting a site many times). What exactly is your angle? I think we may have the first case of Firefox extension fanboism on our hands here, folks.
Hmm, I didn't attack AdBlock. I did mean to say that it was redundant and pointless for AdBlock to prompt users as long as the same users also run NoScript. I did also say that I prefer NoScript over AdBlock, but I wouldn't call that an "attack".
As for NoScript's meddling with AdBlock, my personal belief is that is okay as long as the meddling involves only the showing of NoScript's as since I am using NoScript for free. I wouldn't mind if AdBlock meddled with NoScript to show AdBlock's, and only AdBlock's, own ads.
I am not a FF plugin fanboy. If NoScript and AdBlock accepted deals from advertisers and things gradually become worse (as they almost always do over time) then I'd ditch FF entirely and go the Chrome route.
So that's my angle.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did the article imply that the AdBlock guys are asking advertisers to change their code just so AdBlock can allow or disallow ads like NoScript already does? It would be kinda pointless since many AdBlock users also have NoScript installed!
Despite the FUD surrounding NoScript, I'll take it over AdBlock any day (well, at least until they refuse to block ads other than those on their own page).
NoScript's AdBlock-blocking trick was kinda dirty, but I don't see them as being hypocritical for allowing their own ads given the tremendous service(which increases safety while speeding up browsing) they provide for free.
From an article in the San Diego Reader:
Last week in a Spring Valley business park, a tower nearly 100 feet tall sprang up seemingly overnight...I approached three men, dressed as though they might be engineers, who were standing in the parking lot outside NSM Surveillance on Via Orange Way. When I asked them what the tower was for, one of them responded with the joke, "We can't tell you. We'd have to kill you."...By Wednesday afternoon the tower had disappeared.
Though that particular product was probably just a communications tower, the article describes how easy it is to set up an Orwellian society, especially with a systems integrator such as NSM Surveillance.
They used Cal State Northridge's Oviatt Library in some academy scenes (though obviously the water and the golden gate bridge aren't there in real life ^_^).
:)
I mention this because I had my dick sucked in that library. The isolated study booths on the third floor are a good place for that, provided you tape a newspaper over the window. You can thank me later
Pffft. Ever try to browse Slashdot and look at porn with no mouse/touchpad while mousekeys wont work on your weird laptop?!
Tab about a hundred times to get to the link you want, then tab another hundred in the next window or until you get the right thumbnail etc. It's a tedious mess of tabs, enters, ALT+F4s, ALT+tabs, Windows and arrow keys, and backspaces. I'll have a broken keyboard over no mouse anyday.
Non-mouse navigability is a great metric for the usability of a website.
You're thinking of PICs and ASICs, bro. If they do keep SPARC alive it would be for 2 reasons - existing userbase and the comfort of the merger(and the testemonials of the current SPARC users) to prospective SPARC buyers. The latter wouldn't fly until the economy sees an upturn.
Don't look at me, I just like to drink.
...and you need a flu shot.
However, I do admit the possibility that all the smart people will migrate to Europe and leave the authoritarians in America.
Fixed that for 'ya. Give it a few years, you'll see. Funny how history repeats itself!
Agreed, I'm not right-wing or into big money but the difference between the 'journal and, say, Newsweek or FoxNews is like the difference between GQ/Esquire and Maxim.
You make a good point - Linda is, after all, one dirty Sanchez!
However, in the short term, I firmly believe that Wine is the only way to massively increase Ubuntu's market share.
Embrace, extend, extinguish!
Won't happen. Life-critical devices are embedded systems.
Inb4 Colbert or Moot. For the lulz.
When life...is just a game, who's to blame?
-- Green Jelly
For example, in the little multicultural, multilingual, top-performing country of Singapore, some 46% of the eighth graders scored in the top 10% of the world.
Here's why. Though I agree that American parents have gone soft on discipline.
No, it's spelled correctly. Priacy (as in where people pri into your personal life)is the opposite of privacy.
All kidding aside, networking sites aren't all bad. LinkedIn, for example, would be a good place to check a prospective employee's online presence without having to witness the passing out by the toilet after the bong hits.
big money usually has religious hangups
Naw. They just don't want to pay out the benefits to more spouses than they have to. Many people think that Rupert Murdoch and his Fox empire have religious hangups, but don't forget that Fox gave us Married...With Children and Family Guy.
Sitting on the park bench
Eyeing little girls, with bad intent...
No problem, a little Photoshop here and there
That would be getting into the realm of video effects which are much less trivial than Photoshop. The idea is still troubling, because the fewer the people who could do it, the much more believable it would be. That level of skill is asking to be abused!
but what role do our current beta tests play in the potential outcomes of unreleased titles?
Companies just release their products anyway. Nowdays beta-testers are referred to as "early adopters". Sadly, that extends to the hardware world as well, as this and this (the forum is riddled with those kinds of posts) demonstrate. At least Google are honest about their products being in permanent beta, but their stuff works unlike the others ;)
/rant, thanks for reading.
Disclaimer: I'm familiar with both items because my father purchased one of those laptops only to have it die within 1-2 months. I bought a Peavey Vypyr amp which was riddled with the bugs that you see in the forums, problems which firmware updates did not fix. I took it in to the repair shop three weeks ago and I just found out that the board my amp needs is backordered until mid-May!
handed over 100 new Fiestas to "agents"
Perhaps 100 which received special care and attention, manufactured to higher tolerances than those of the actual production run.
The marketing may be honest, but that dosen't mean that there isn't B.S. there.
It's modded troll because the moderator in question is likely severely mentally retarded, probably with some sort of weird spasms or seizures, and is sat down in front of the computer to gyrate endlessly whilst simultaneously crapping his pants.
Maybe he forgot to put the do-rag on his greased-up Yoda doll before he inserted it into his ass.
p.s. Fuck the moderators,
Fuck Apple,
Fuck Microsoft,
Fuck the Swedish court system,
Fuck corporate America.
No, he's right. Facebook and Twitter and the like are for attention-starved teens.
As for MENSA, having a high IQ does not account for conscientiousness or lack thereof. For example, I bet at least one MENSA member is religious. That alone smashes the credibility of the organization. And do they, in their infinite wisdom, realize that "mensa" is Spanish slang for "stupid female"?
Nintendo want a family-friendly toy. Hell, they won't even allow beer pong on their sissy system without substantial changes.
Wiis are all fine and dandy for infantiles and 3 year old kids, but men with hair on their nuts deserve better. More realism. Like curse words and heads asploding.
Bonus: if you can name the console and game the above linked pictures were taken from, then you win smug self-satisfaction.